This petition is for faculty to sign. If you are a student, please sign this petition instead: bit.ly/students-say-divest and please forward this petition to your professors!

Please note that this petition is separate from the one you may have already signed requesting a meeting of the Academic Council to more fully discuss divestment among a far larger number of faculty. Fossil Free Stanford asks that you sign both. The other petition requesting a meeting of the Academic Council can be found here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfua6RiZ5AtrIkrf2xkEl3HjLZ1M0lGPubHYdn4vaCkx6-88g/viewform

 Please enter your Stanford email address and name below the petition text and then submit the form to sign the petition.

The text of the petition in support of divestment from the top 100 fossil fuel companies reads:
 
"We, the undersigned faculty of Stanford University, disagree with the Faculty Senate Vote of May 28, 2020, and express our ongoing support of divesting the University’s endowment fully from the top 100 fossil fuel companies, including oil and gas (Stanford divested from coal and tar sands in 2014).
 
We have collected these signatures in advance of the Board of Trustees vote on divestment slated to occur on June 10-11, 2020 in order to demonstrate the fact that the result of the Faculty Senate vote of May 28, 2020 (28 against, 11 for, and 6 abstentions, for a total of 45 faculty who voted) is not representative of the general sentiment of the faculty community at Stanford, which is comprised of 2,276 individuals. We stand with the student body, which overwhelmingly supports the divestment of the university’s endowment from fossil fuels, as evidenced by the referenda of the student body on the issue and the unanimous passage of the divestment resolution by the Undergraduate Senate and the Graduate Student Council, which make up the Associated Students of Stanford University.
 
Many of the 28 Faculty Senators who voted against the ASSU resolution explicitly stated that they were not willing to look beyond the immediate consequence of divestment (fearing a potential loss of funding from fossil fuel corporations, even though this has not happened at other universities that have fully divested) instead of considering the larger issue of the fossil fuel industry’s well-documented obstruction of climate action in the United States and globally for over thirty years. As called for by the IPCC, IEA, and a large body of peer-reviewed scientific literature, institutions like Stanford must divest as well as reduce their carbon footprint in order to help combat climate change, a human-caused phenomenon that fossil fuel company scientists have known since at least the 1970s is exacerbating the severity and frequency of extreme weather events, destroying habitats, and diminishing the health of our most vulnerable communities. We must take an ethical forward-thinking stance demonstrating that we, as an institution of higher learning founded to help understand and solve humanity’s most pressing challenges, are not unduly influenced by the oil and gas industry’s funding of some of our academic programs and research. Indeed, this industry not only continues to spend 99% of its capital expenditures on fossil fuel production, a fact incompatible with the 2015 Paris Agreement goals of keeping warming to no more than 2℃ above pre-industrial levels; it also continues to spend an estimated $200 million per year to prevent robust science-based climate change legislation from passing at all levels of government in the United States.
 
We will not stand for the university’s ongoing financial support in any amount of an industry rooted in the exploitation of indigenous lands, disregard for the health of present and future generations (especially marginalized communities), and a steadfast prioritization of short-term profit over the long-term livability of the planet. By signing this petition, we are expressing the demonstrated will of the Stanford community and encouraging Stanford to do its part to rapidly change the unsustainable business model of an industry that has refused to change for over 50 years, and which has spent decades deceiving the public and blocking solutions. As Stanford faculty, we demand that the Board of Trustees divest the endowment from fossil fuels as part of a global effort to send a powerful social and market signal that the age of fossil fuel dominance of our energy system must come to an end within the timeframe determined by the best available climate science."

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